[Tracy:] Whenever you achieve anything that’s important to you, you release endorphins — your brain releases endorphins — which gives you a natural high. It’s called ‘nature’s happy drug.’ And what successful people do, is they become addicted to this natural high — this feeling of happiness and elation, and high energy, and personableness — they just feel good about themselves, and they wanna do it again. So that’s why you and I continue to work after we’ve achieved our financial goals… is because it makes us happy.

[Interviewer:] Umm, that is powerful. From your personal experience, uh, what’s your definition of ‘happy,’ and do you really feel that people are gonna be happy once they get something, or do you feel it’s more of an internal thing? Or… explain that, uh, for the people.

[Tracy:] One of the best definitions of ‘happiness’ — and we both know — is that happiness is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal. It’s when you feel that you are moving progressively toward the achievement of a goal that your brain releases endorphins — to motivate you, ’cause your brain wants you to be successful. The reason that people are not happy when they achieve a goal is because that goal doesn’t inspire them. They think, “Well, I want to make a lot of money.” Well, it’s much better to want to be really really good at what you do, and as a result make a lot of money.

[Interviewer:] Right.

[Tracy:] So you can say, “I want to make a lot of money, but the way I’m going to achieve that is I’m going to become really really good at doing something I really enjoy.” And so you throw your whole heart into doing something you enjoy, and you get better and better at it, and surprise, surprise, you’re successful.

Now here’s another important point: [and that] is that eighty-five percent of all of our happiness in life comes from our interactions with other people — our relationships with our family, our spouse, our children, our good friends — all… eighty-five percent of your joy comes from that. The other fifteen percent is accounted for by worldly achievements. And worldly achievements are temporary. I mean if you make a lot of money you can’t eat it, you can’t sleep it — with it — it doesn’t make you warm, it doesn’t fill your stomach, it’s just there. Like they say, you know, you can only wear one pair of pants at a time, drive one car at a time, and so on.

So, ah, successful people realize that the quality of their relationships is more important than anything else. And they enjoy them at each stage along the way. They don’t allow themselves to become so distracted by their work that they ignore their relationships.

Brian Tracy — All skills are learnable

One of the things that I learned, by the way, is that becoming a self-made millionaire is not the important thing. What is really important is the person you have to become, to become a self-made millionaire. You have to become a totally different human being.

My friend says… one of my friends says that in order to be… to achieve something you’ve never achieved before, you have to become someone you’ve never been before. And it’s a really important insight, is [that] the qualities that you need to develop — qualities on the inside to become a self-made millionaire — are incredible qualities that make you a vastly better person. Not only better in terms of character, determination, discipline, decision-making, strength, and so on, but they make you a far better person — they round out your character in a far better way. So that the real payoff of becoming wealthy is not because you can eat more — because how many more meals can you eat, how many more clothes can you wear — because… it’s the kind of person that you become, and then the kind of person… people that you associate… the kind of life that you have.

And so, the things that we’re going to talk about now — and I know that you’re some of the smartest people in our country, so I’m going to give you these ideas very quickly by dealing cards — what I’ve found in my research is that there’s a series of qualities that self-made millionaires have. If you have these qualities, your success is virtually guaranteed. And if you don’t have these qualities, the qualities are learnable. Point number one is that all business or sales skills are learnable. All financial skills are learnable. If you can drive a car, you can learn any skill. If you can drive a car, you can learn the skill.

Now, number two is you’re probably only one skill away from doubling your income, right now. You’re probably only one skill away from setting yourself on the road to becoming a self-made millionaire. That turns out to be the case for almost everyone. And if you don’t know what that skill is, maybe over the course of the time we spend together it’ll jump out at you. But whatever it is, you’ve gotta find it out, and go to work on it, because it is learnable.

The Law of Attraction

Each one of us on this earth has it…

The ability to lead… and inspire

Sometimes our work feels small and insignificant.

But remember a small ripple can gain momentum… and build a current that is insurmountable.

Begin with one small step.

Don’t let others stand in your way.

Walk your own path.

Some may laugh. So what. Many will follow.

Don’t ever give up.

Success… seems to be largely a matter of HANGING ON after others have let go. – William Feather

Fear keeps people small.

Run towards your fears. Embrace them.

On the other side of your greatest fears lives your greatest life. – Robin Sharma

Get out of the stands. Get on the court. Play the game of life.

Take risks. Leap, and the net will appear.

Be positive. What you think, is who you become.

Dream. Dream big. Feel it. Believe it. Achieve it.

Whatever your dreams are… go for it! You will inspire others.

Extend a hand. Care. Be kind.

When something does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy! – Samuel Goldwyn

Be a positive role model. Be the change you want to see in the world! – Gandhi